Valley is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Valley in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Valley in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Valley by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Valley ranks at #5,888. That means there are 5,887 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Valley.
Is the name Valley a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1888 – at that time, it landed at position 959 with 7 newborn girls receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Valley is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Valley, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Valley was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Valley, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 43 parents welcomed a new Valley to earth that year. That makes Valley ranking on position 3,178 among newborn girls in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Valley who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
Meeting a woman or girl named Valley is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Valley can be found in only two: Mississippi and Texas. No other state currently has residents named Valley. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Valley living in one state or another (if your name is Valley and you live outside of Mississippi or Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Valley is in Texas, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00007% of all female residents are named Valley – that’s just one in 1,400,690! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 15 women with that name. So, if your name is Valley, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter V is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with V, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But V is by no means the rarest initial. While Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Valley is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.6% of all girls' names begin with a V, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a V, Virginia is currently the most common.
If your name is Valley and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Valley, you can simply say:
Violin
Apple
Lion
Lion
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Valley
Valley
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
A
L
L
E
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
V
A
L
L
E
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Valley sounds like this:
